Giving up the Beard and Hair

so a couple of people have told me that I kind of look like Wolverine, well maybe as a younger looking one, maybe in a couple of years I'll look more like that.

TALLAHASSEE

so from the title i'm now going to serve a total of 24 months in the state of Florida, Alabama and a tiny bit of Mississippi. I will report on the 7th of October, in the Provo Missionary Training Center.


Thank you all for your support and for all of the fun times together.

Where in the World is....

so as of 10 am today the 2 of august in the year of our lord, 2009, my papers our now officially out of my hands and they are now being sent to Salt Lake City to be reviewed and to be assigned.

as of right now the guess are

Toni-- Sweden

Ben-- Chile

Suzy-- Costa Rica

Aunt Robyn-- Panama

Jan-- Harlingen Texas

Aunt Dorthy-- Wisconsin

Myself-- India

Robyn-- Zimbabwe

Mom-- Taiwan

Harrison-- Norway

Bret-- Nicaragua

Thad-- Tennessee

Jethro-- Seattle

Dad-- Louisiana

Emily-- England

Camille-- Taiwan

Uncle Dave-- Houston Texas

Lincoln-- Albuquerque

Sophia-- New Zealand

Cousin Diana-- Spain

LauraLee-- Vernal

Swindle-- Cambodia

Ryan LEE-- Illinois

Mama Adair-- Alabama

Papa Swin-- Uzbekistan / Boise

Ameri-- New Zealand

Katie Glade-- Australia

Grandma-- Denver

Cambria-- Mississippi

Micheal-- Oklahoma

so feel free to write in where you think I'll go and I'll continue to update the list.
this is a list of all possible missions guess.

all of this waiting has made me a bit crazy.

Dairy Manager

So I've officially been doing the same work as a dairy manager for about 2 weeks now, and in that time I've learned a few things,

1ST it's usually about 45-35 degrees no matter what time of day or month of the year. so it's nice to bring a jacket, also it's a lot better then pushing carts in from the outside where it's usually about 100 degrees by 10 am.

2ND my store manager/boss likes to order massive amounts of eggs, on the order of about 4 or 5 pallets of eggs. which ends about being 12960 eggs or about 1080 dozen eggs per pallet.

3RD people like to drink milk, a lot of milk, about every other day I move roughly 3-4 tons of milk, and the way that I figure that is that a gallon of milk weights 8-9 pounds per gallon, then there are 4 gallons per crate and there are 54 crates per pallet. which ends up being about 1728-1944 lbs. per pallet and then that comes to about 3-4 pallets per day so on average I move 2 tons of milk everyday.


4TH As you can tell I've had a lot of time to think mostly because it's just so lonely back there, so these are just a few of the calculations that I've done while trying to find something to do.

5TH the last thing, while people enjoy there job I realized this would not be one i would love, and for those people who do, do this for a living I realize that it doesn't take a lot of education, and it also doesn't require thinking power, so I've decided to get out of there as quickly as possible.

so now is the time that you should start placing bets on where I will be going on my mission.

Injuries

so recently I've been having strange things happen one of which is what I think is my muscles ripping which sounds normal when your working out but I don't think it should look like this
so if anyone knows for sure what's happening to me that would be great. also I sometimes hurts to use the arm that's injured...

what my arm normally looks like

what my arm looks like now. notice the depression in my bicep

so those who have a medical back ground your comments would be appreciated.

A Recap

so since jan just left today i thought i would put up some pictures that i took while they were here.
here are a few.

first day we went to jethro's art show

the first week, getting Lincoln's desire for basketball much greater

Baby sitting

hiking the Y

Clark is looking to the future, or is not really happy being on the mountain

Clark found the joy of playing with the hose

again

mom stepping in

a very snotty baby wanting to walk

kids playing on the bed while beetle get's ready for the MTC.

My 7000th day and a new job

so on that new website that thad has shown us i officially turned 7000 day old on may 8th while that was pretty cool i really didn't celebrate it and nothing really happened on that day too.


As for my new job i now officially work for Buy Low Market, which is located in the old spot of reams, which used to be the old food 4 less store, which was probably something else before that. from what i have gathered from working there for about a week now, the store gets merchandise from the other stores which are located in the LA area, but we also get shipment in from associated food stores which pretty much as a monopoly on the grocery market in this state. to give you a reference every time that you see a western family logo in a store that means that the entire store has it's shipping from Associated Foods the same thing works with Smiths, Albersons, and Walmart. they all receive there shipments from a different group. but anyways enough about how these stores work,

my job. first i was hired as a checker, which i then spent four days learning how to be a checker and then they took me out of there and then sent me back into the dairy where I originally worked at Days Market for 20 some odd months, which i don't really mind but it was these last few days that i have seen how poor of management they have in the back and how lazy these guys are, the dairy manager there is 19, just as old as I am, and by his words he claims that he has an unchartable reading skill, but he is a high school drop out with a GED and again his own words that high school was to easy. now he's is learning how to play about 4 different instruments, and knows a rock group which sound just like Tool, and they are going to some college to learn more about music, and everyone in this group knows 8 other instruments and also is "fluent" in writing in each of the instruments and is very good at all of them.

so back to the Dairy which is about twice as big as the one at days, but when i first went in there there were 5 pallets of stuff that could be unloaded but the manager didn't do it so i did that by myself which i was starting to get mad. then the freight which is supposed to come in during the morning didn't show up until 6pm so he was already gone and i threw the freight myself which i haven't done in a long time which i should have gotten some help with, so i was pissed by that time and then i realized that the milk was empty so i would then have to fill the milk. and then in the process of filling the milk some costumers wanted some eggs, so i had to drop filling the milk and then fill the Eggs, which i put out about 15 boxes, of 15 cartons per box out, again without any help. by this time it was time to leave which I was glad to do and they are probably going to do the same thing to me tonight, so right now I'm not a happy camper and I DO NOT WANT TO GO BACK.

now for the other personal in this store they mostly seem to be either single mothers, or ex-construction workers who all seem to be anti-Mormon or who just don't care if they are Mormon. so that's my venting for this month.